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August 04, 2004

It's the real thing

New Yorker frantic with dread over the fate of her loved ones desperately tries to reach them by cell phone as the horror of 9/11 unfolds (left), while mindless robots programmed to hate -- presumably by the sort of dysfunctional child-rearing practices blogged here -- whoop it up and pass candies all around.

We just happened to be motoring back down to Chelsea from Goomp's September 11, 2001. Had stopped off at a famous nursery in Stratham, NH, to purchase some bulbs. Happened to be driving in two separate cars, so each of us started to hear what was unfolding in our own little auto world. We did think of pulling aside and going DID YOU HEAR? but ended up just driving all the way home before exchanging notes. As each of us approached Chelsea, not knowing what to expect, we anxiously watched the sky ahead.

"I have always thought that they should show the 9/11 pictures of the Twin Towers crumbling at the start of every newscast that pretends to talk about the threat of terrorism," writes our i-mail correspondent. Unconscionably, the MSM decided shortly after the fact that these sorts of pictures should not be aired, as they might be too upsetting.

Could any image be more ghastly? We hate to think they were thinking only of the bottom line, but why else wouldn't the media want to show these images every day until Osama & Company, who have declared they want to destroy us, are destroyed?

Thank you for posting these images; America haters and moral equivocators can strive to white out the events of 9/11 as time passes and memory fades, but the stricken look on that woman's face blows away all of their cheap and pointless sophistry in an instant.